Two-thirds of American TV pilots never air. Major networks order around 20 pilots per season, but only around 6 are chosen to premiere. About 10 or fewer scripts out of every 50 commissioned are produced as pilots. Major networks spend 70% of their budget on program development. In the 1950s, advertising agencies created new series and wrote pilots. A one-hour pilot can cost up to $2 million to produce.
An estimated 2/3 of American-developed pilot television shows never aired. Major networks usually order around 20 pilots per season and out of those, around 6 are chosen to be premiere episodes. Of every fifty scripts commissioned, about ten or fewer are selected to be produced as a pilot.
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Major television networks spend about 70% of their budget on program development.
In the 1950s, most networks outsourced the creation of new series to advertising agencies, who not only came up with the ideas for new television shows, but also wrote the pilots and decided what times they should be shown.
A one-hour pilot program can cost up to $2 million US dollars to produce.
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